IIT Bombay-govt soULS project to deliver solar lamps to UP students in power deficit areas

IIT-Bombay in relationship with UP National Rural Livelihood Mission and Energy Efficiency Services Limited will convey 34 lakh sun oriented lights to schoolchildren till Class 12 of every 29 regions of UP.

School youngsters in remote parts of Pallia and Nighasan hinders on Indo-Nepal outskirt will never again need to consume the midnight lamp oil for contemplating.

Reason: SoULS or 'Sun powered Urja through Localisation for Sustainability'— a joint activity of the Union service for new and sustainable power source (MNRE) and IIT Bombay — is probably going to change the substance of towns, which have no power supply. They will give 90,000 financed sun based lights to understudies of Pallia, Nighasan and Lakhimpur squares.

UP venture head of IIT-Bombay Shailendra Dwivedi told HT, "Under MNRE rules, the IIT-Bombay in relationship with UP National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) and Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) will convey 34 lakh sun based lights to schoolchildren till class 12 out of 29 areas of UP."

The venture has additionally turned into a wellspring of vocation for ladies of self improvement gatherings of these pieces as they have begun amassing sun powered lights from December 15 following their preparation by IIT-Bombay specialists. EESL is giving material to amass the lights.

Agent chief NRLM Ajay Pandey told HT, "80 ladies self improvement gathering individuals have been locked in to collect the sun based lights, which will be sold to class kids at financed rates of Rs 100 for every unit against their real cost of Rs. 700." The SHG individuals amassing and appropriating the sun powered light would procure Rs 12 and Rs 17 for every unit separately.

Strikingly enough, SoULS venture concealing, MP, Odisha, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh has earned the PM Award in Dungarpur (Rajasthan) this year for its fruitful execution.